three of the best dishes from Jean George were:

lobster scented with mace, fresh lychees and celery hearts in a ice wine verjus dressing

peekytoe crab and english pea fondue, rhubarb gelee, shiso puree

foie gras brulee, slow roasted strawberries and aged balsamic

the world as blog

the more one cooks the more one understands the cost of fine dining in people hours and product cost (never mine rent and hopefully profit).....i cant cook great but i have a small group of dishes that i can cook well, but just a few do i feel are my own, some are great adaptions.....last two weeks i have a new dish that rocks!! make a rich herb risotto (rice quality and stock quality are tres inportant) i use basil, chocolate mint and lots of parsley, and on top i shave 1 and 1/2 ears of corn (per plate) and ricotta salata (SP? hard riccota) thats it, its so yummy....another new easy dish for summer i made up and is only 8 items is a pasta sauce of oil, butter, salt, cook down a ton of sweet onion, add a ton of sweet cherry tomato, at the end add 6+ ears of shaven corn, last stir in some fresh basil = 7 items, cook some top end egg pappardelle (rustichella d'abruzzo is awesome brand) add to sauce el dente and yahoo to summer....

We finally made it to the food stall at Red Hook soccer fields, very cool, we wernt too hungry so we had a queso arepa(sp?) side of slaw-ish cabbage, jugo de pina and will come back starved soon.....

did anyone see the giant rubik's cube at astor place?

2003 Top Eats

Globe All
Passadis Del Pep (Barcelona) 4*
Varoulko (Athens) 4*
Slanted Door (SF) 3*
Carballeira (Lleida, Spain) 3*
Uglesich's (New Orleans) 3*
#9 Park (Boston) 3*
El Torreone (Torrisellas, Spain) 2*
Asados Nazareno (Roa, Spain) 2*
Frankie & Johnny's (New Orleans) 2*
O Loutros Fish Taverna (Thessaloniki, Greece) 2*
Botafumeiro (Barcelona) 2*

Loc All
wd50 4*
Kai 4*
Wallse 4*
Jean George 4*
Al Di La 3*
Locanda Vini Olii 3*
Fleur de Sel 3*
66 3*
Grand Sichuan Int Midtown 3*
Gramercy Tavern 3*
Bao Noodles 3*

Went to Jean George last night for what is probly my 5th or 6th meal since they opened, everyone has been 4* to me, we did both tasting menu's (we tried 12+ dishes) and tasted all 16 desserts, I was also happy as the wine list had many items to pick from in my price range, overall it was expensive of course but its like seeing the Stones play at the Garden every few years, and like Keith, Jean George still rocks!!

Lunch at WP, the list is growing and the food is good.....

Wallse thursday nite was awesome, now 4* IMO....
Tasting menu was 2 soup shots, f gras with cherry (gift from chef, best in recent memory, blows away same from cafe boulud), bluefish with heirloom tomato, bass with corn etc, wiener snitzel (awesome), a duck rolled in cabbage (awesome), chesse....

Eating By #'s 2003
Grand Sichuan Int Midtown 14Times
wd~50 12 Times
Wash Park 10 Times
66 5 Times
The Minnow 5 Times
Kai 3 Times

John Zoller alphamega series

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sadly last night at Cafe Boulud was less exciting in a big way (we heard that if the chef cooked special for us we would have rocked, he offered we were tired so passed) from the time before, the time before was awesome....2* now

p.s. the wine list is very difficult

One for the Redwoods

I've often thought I would get healthier by eating more fruit if only the fruit would meet me halfway and be at least somewhat delicious. There's a pretty successful organic farm in these parts (Rappahannock/Culpepper counties Va.), Sunnyside Farms(?) , and they're producing some nice stuff. Pick of the week--Asian Pears.

Satellite photos before and after (during) the blackout.

Blackout history project (via TPM)

"Even if within two hours it was pretty clear, for a president to say something, it's got to be more than pretty clear, it's got to be 100 percent certain," said one Republican with strong ties to the White House."

ok i think i figgered it out - the stooges blew a fues in sound check and hence a cascade to remember :

Blackout Cancels Mich. Iggy Pop Concert     CLARKSTON,Mich. - A high wattage rock band and a venue named after a power company couldn't make the show go on during the blackout that hit the state.   Iggy & the Stooges had finished a sound check Thursday at DTE Energy Music Theatre and were headed back to their Auburn Hills hotel when the power went out, the Detroit Free Press reported on its Web site.   It was supposed to be the biggest Detroit rock reunion of the year: Iggy with brothers Ron and Scott Asheton performing their first hometown show in three decades, in front of what would have been a packed crowd of fans.   The concert was rescheduled for Aug. 25.   Fans seeking refunds can get them at their point of purchase. That may not be much consolation for those who'd trekked from England, California and elsewhere to witness the big night.   "I'm so bummed," said Eric Danville, who flew in from New York. "It had to be an act of God or a solar flare that would keep me from seeing the Stooges."

i dont like kendall jackson wines but they have a huge garden and sponser a tomato festival the KJ chef is well know (Food and Wine Chef of the Year 2001, same issue Wylie) and he's in town for Beard House dinner 8/26 , i think even though its with KJ wine i may go, my goal is to have my mind think heirloom tomato whenever i see a KJ bottle to hear thier name....

nytimes has an article in yesterday's dining out section about the woman who for the past year has been cooking her way through julia child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking. the ingredients and recipes are somewhat outdated by our standards and she estimates she's gone through 60 pounds of butter and cases of vermouth. and, of course, she's been blogging it all.

"I'm miserable so they can be happy," Ms. Powell said of her readers. "I'm like the Jesus of extreme cooking. I got fat and very unhappy for their sins."

Where to Go Next: The Year's 10 Best Openings

new painting by samoa

Rose Water in Broooklyn was DELISH again, it was only meal #4 but I love them, everything is hand selected fresh local, summer is a great time to eat there but fall is also, its a place we must go at least once a season.....

I heard about a Microsoft Worm on NPR yesterday and I think I got it. Ninety seconds online then a system shutdown message with a sixty second timer.